Howdy All,

Long-time lurker, first time poster!

I live in the West Midlands of England, and have been studying card magic seriously for about 10 years now.

My two biggest infuences are Roberto Giobbi (Card College - what a godsend!) and the impeccable ouvre of Darwin Ortiz.

I mainly perform for friends and family at parties, birthdays weddings etc.

I am a firm believer in book learning. I just find it too difficult to learn from DVD's as I appear to need three hands to do this (two for the deck, one for the DVD remote).

I'm not much of a collector, my card magic library consists of about 10 books (Card College 1-5, everything printed my Darwin Ortiz). I just prefer to practice and polish the tricks that I know, rather than learning another 200 variations of a 4-Ace assembly.

That's all for now, see you on the boards!

Hey Ade,

Welcome to another Brit on here. I'm a recent joiner from West London. If you look a few posts back you'll see my welcome message and brief history.

Hope you have lots of fun here.

Stu

Welcome to the Café Ade2010,

Although ,I guess you've been here a while.

I prefer DVDs myself but I have enjoyed the book route on occasion when the writing is good.

I spend some time choosing my favorite version of an effect and learn that one (till I see a clear reason to change).

Saves time in the long run.

It is more fun here when you find your "voice" .

- Mary Mowder

Welcome to the Café, 'Ade2010', enjoy your stay here!

Jv